Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti

Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge researching the relevance of scent in Safavid Iran (1500-1722). By analysing Persian sources Giorgia demonstrates how odours are a fundamental part of the study of Iranian art and its history. Prof Christine van Ruymbeke supervises the project.

Giorgia obtained a BA in History of Art from Trinity College, Cambridge. Her dissertation won the 2019 Best Undergraduate Dissertation Award from the Association for Art History, UK. She then completed her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art in Safavid Art History with Prof Sussan Babaie. Her MA thesis was published in August 2021 in LAPIS: The Journal of the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU).

She is currently organising a conference in Cambridge on June 4th 2025 on the relationship between Scent and Imagination, the project is funded by CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge).